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The Golden Triangle area, where the countries of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar meet, is notorious for being one of the main drug-producing hubs in the world.  The same waterways are now being used to transport God’s Word, helping to meet the great demand for Bibles for the thousands of families who are being radically transformed by the Spirit of God.

In these end times we see many headwinds blowing against the progress of the Gospel in many parts of Asia, bit in the war-torn country of Myanmar (Burma) a different kind of wind is blowing — the breath of the Holy Spirit continues to fan the flames of a tremendous revival that is touching parts of society in Myanmar that have never been touched by the Name of Jesus before. As multiple civil wars are raging across the country, and millions of precious people are experiencing horrific suffering and near starvation as a result, we would like to share this short video with you, which gives a summary of how the Living God is turning ashes to beauty and death to life in the slums of one of Myanmar’s largest cities. This year, various Asia Harvest projects has been utilized as we have invested heavily in the kingdom of God in Myanmar. Because of your prayers and generous support, our Asia Bible Fund, Asian Workers’ Fund , Ministry Training Fund , Children’s Fund and Persecution & Relief Fund have all been used to help fuel the revival as it transforms many thousands of lives. Please consider sharing the video with others to help shed light on what is happening in Myanmar.

The Asia Bible Fund provides Bibles to all Asian believers who hunger and thirst for God’s Word. In this photo from about 20 years ago, two teenage soldiers with the Karen Liberation Army are glad to receive Kachin Bibles before being deployed to the frontlines in their battle against the Burmese military.

A Message & Prayer Request from Paul Hattaway

The revivalist Charles Finney , when commenting on the Matthew 11:12 passage, accurately captured the desperate circumstance through which God had moved mightily in history. He said, “Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die—or if need be, to win and die!” Such words prove true whenever believers choose an uncomfortable and inconvenient obedience over the easy life. War, struggle, and various forms of persecution are unwanted external pressures, but in Christ, they have the potential to push the believer to greater faith. “Hangry” is an expression sometimes used by Westerners to describe the uncomfortable, annoyed, or even angry state of an individual who hasn’t eaten in some hours.

With a population of 190,000 people, for countless centuries the Koho have inhabited villages nestled in the beautiful mountains of south-central Vietnam, with the majority in Lam Dong Province. More than 3,000 Koho people also live in the United States, where they were granted access as refugees after the Vietnam War, as many Koho had fought alongside the US military. Because they fought against the Communists, at times the Koho and other tribes have been despised as traitors and persecuted by the Vietnamese government since the end of the war in 1975. The main livelihood for rural Koho families is hunting and fishing, while many families cultivate rice and coffee and grow a wide variety of fruit, including banana, watermelon, pineapple, and mulberry. Koho society is matrilineal. This means that after marriage the groom moves in with his wife's family, and children take the name of their mother. Extended Koho families often live in large houses on stilts. For countless generations the Koho people have been animists, worshipping numerous deities. including the sun, moon, prominent mountains, rivers, and large trees.

A woman from the one of the five Li tribes, who are the original inhabitants of Hainan Island. Is featured in the above photo weaving.

A woman worshipping at the feet of a massive (108-meter or 354-feet high) statue of the goddess Guanyin in Hainan.